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HMS EREBUS
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HMS EREBUS
built by Harland & Wolff Ltd Govan,
Yard No 492
Last Name: EREBUS
Previous Names: To have been M35
Propulsion: Steam triple expansion 2-shaft, 4-cyl VTE, 4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers, 6000ihp giving 12 knots
Launched: Monday, 19/06/1916
Built: 1916
Ship Type: Monitor
Ship's Role: Erebus class
Tonnage: 7200 disp
Length: 405 feet
Breadth: 88 feet
Draught: 11 feet
Owner History:
Royal Navy
Status: Arrived for Scrapping - 29/1/1947 Inverkeithing
Remarks: 2 x 15in 42cal Mk I, 2 x 6in 40cal QF Mk II, 2 x 12pdr, and 1 x 3in AA.
Crew 204
This class was built after feedback from use of earlier monitors.
They were faster, longer with narrower bulges, had a bow rudder leading to straight stem, and a four storey bridge
Erebus arrived at Dover 5/9/1916 and was involved in the bombardment of Zeebruge and Ostend. In 1917 she was hit by a wire controlled explosive boat FL12 which damaged her bulge. She then covered the Zeebruge raid. Later in July she was hit by two bombs causing minor damage.
In 1919 she was attached to the Chatham Gunnery school and then to the White Sea Squadron where she was involved in the bombardment of Onega and covered the withdrawl from Murmansk. She then moved to Estonia and Latvia.
Between the wars she was used for gun trials and as a Turret Drill Ship. She was then refitted in 1939 with a few to being loaned to South Africa for the defence of Cape Town but then war broke out.
With thanks to John Ward McQuaid
Photo supplied by John Ward McQuaid showing her after her 1918 refit with 4in LA guns.
Previous update by Paul Strathdee
Last updated: by Brian Hargreaves from the original records by Stuart Cameron
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